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A Case Study – AdBean.net is Being Heard Online!

One of my very favorite things about ChirpUp’s interactive marketing services is working with energetic start-ups. There’s nothing more exciting than watching a worthy new business concept start growing. And when our interactive marketing services help contribute to that growth, it’s twice as fun. AdBean is an exciting Chicago start-up.  Their powerful new technology makes effective [...]

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New Media, New Marketing, New Currency!

Have you taken advantage of the new currency? Of course PayPal has been around for some time, but how soon before we can conduct transactions on our iPhone? The day has arrived. Now, thanks to Square (co-founded by Jim McKlevey and Twitter’s Jack Dorsey), we can process credit card payments with iPhones and computer scanners. [...]

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How To Connect LinkedIn with Your WordPress Blog

Connecting LinkedIn with your WordPress blog is highly recommended for most B2B marketers.  Many mid-size businesses forget to harness LinkedIn‘s tremendous reach even though it’s super easy set-up so that your blog posts automatically appear in you individual profile. Steps for Feeding LinkedIn with WordPress After logging in, find and click on the “Applications” button [...]

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Google Domination is Good for Your Business

As the world’s single most powerful media and technology force, Google is doing more than just changing the interactive marketing machine for small and mid size business. They’re biting, chewing and spitting out old notions of interactive marketing. Google is making “small” and “fearless” a competitive advantage. They are reconstituting and democratizing the very notion [...]

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Word of Mouth Marketing and Social Media

Sometimes the most recent and powerful innovations in marketing turn out to be new handles for things that have been going on forever. Social media is a great example because in an important sense, social media is no more (and no less) than people talking. Social media is what happens when a delicatessen makes a [...]

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YouTube Humanizes B2B Social Media Marketing

YouTube is a powerful media channel with serious value for mid market B2Bs. Despite being one of the largest search engines, YouTube’s size and SEO influence is frequently overlooked. The numbers are stunning. Twenty hours of video are uploaded each minute. YouTube CEO, Chad Hurley, recently proclaimed that the site has well over one billion [...]

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Unleash Your LinkedIn Business Network!

Cliché or not, we say it all time… “You get what you put into LinkedIn.” Actually, you get way more! With over 50 million users worldwide, LinkedIn is an immensely powerful B2B marketing channel. If you’re thinking about social media marketing, start with LinkedIn and dive in. Having a Profile Is Not Enough Too frequently, [...]

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Social Media B2B Marketing ROI Finally Emerges

Finally!  We have a credible study that substantiates social media marketing ROI for major B2B brands. The research found that companies with the highest levels of social media engagement increased revenues by 18% in the last 12 months, while the least active declined by 6%. Above and beyond correlating financial performance with deep social media [...]

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LinkedIn Groups B2B Marketing Tips

Join LinkedIn Group Target Market, Not Your Competition Try joining groups where you might actually interact with your target audience, not just your competition.  I know you’re thinking “duh”, but seriously… it’s surprising how often marketers instinctively and exclusively join groups dominated by their competition. Accountants, for example should surely join a few major accounting [...]

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